MK Gandhi, pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha - the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, has a very dark role in the politics of Kashmir. He has succeeded in preventing the Maharaja of Kashmir to declare independence and thus paved the way for an offensive accession of Kashmir.
The events of the summer of 1947 showed some amazing facts about Gandhi and his role in the ongoing conflict in Kashmir, a conflict that has the potential of a sparkNuclear war between India and Pakistan.
Hari Singh, the Maharaja (King) of Kashmir, the Indian National Congress hated and India and Pakistan wanted to remain independent. He asked for a standstill agreement by India and Pakistan, in order to be objective to pursue an independent Kashmir. Pakistan, but India does not have the suspension agreement, which is a reference to designs of India on Kashmir.
Nehru fully aware that such facts would be able to visit Kashmirunder pressure, the Maharaja to accede to India. Nehru said he wanted to go to Kashmir, the release of Sheikh Abdullah, who was placed under arrest by the Maharaja obtained. However, Joseph Korbel is intended question for us:
But one wonders if Nehru was interested in personal wellness Abdullah - free of political implications - at a time when cooked to the subcontinent with disdain and thousands of people have been killed.
Josef Korbel, Danger in Kashmir, p.60
Lord Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, Nehru did not approve the visit and offered to go himself. Kashmir has visited June 18, 1947, and remained there for four days. Lord Mountbatten was not a real discussion with the Maharaja, as the Maharaja would not be influenced, and discuss the fate of his country and people. It is remarkable that the Dogra king, whose reign was one of the most cruel, not to accept India immediately on the basis of his religion, but attempts toremain independent. This was an attempt to return something good for his people? or its intentions were purely selfish?
Lord Mountbatten was the visit by the visit of Mr. Hastings Ismay, Chief of Staff, Lord Mountbatten was followed. Both proved to be a complete failure as regards the granting of a security by the Maharaja, that he did not declare independence. This shook Nehru and later he went to visit Kashmir. Sardar Patel strongly disapproved of this visit, but the NehruInsistence, agreed to let Gandhi to visit Kashmir, who believe that "lesser evil". Gandhi's distrust was already on the rise among Muslims in India.
As Campbell Johnson found:
Both Nehru and Gandhi were very concerned that the Maharaja of Kashmir should make no declaration of independence.
Campbell Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten, p. 117
To eliminate this fear Gandhi visited Kashmir by the end of July 1947. The windows of his car wereIn Baramullah, routes, where an angry mob protesting his visit. However, he was to go ahead and get a cure for his and Nehru's anxiety: a guarantee for the accession of the Maharaja in India.
The Times, London, said:
"... But the Indian Union was here a keen interest in this issue and highlights the fact that the Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, Sir Hari Singh, recently made a lot of representations was influenced by Gandhi, who visits Kashmir three months ago and otherThe leaders of Congress. "
The Times, London, October 25, 1947
What did Gandhi say that the Maharaja? We will never know, but the chain of events that followed his visit is an indicator of what must have happened. After the visit of Prime Minister of Kashmir, Ram Chandar Kak, who had no desire to India has been replaced by Janak Singh, then India's Chand Mahajan by Republicans. British officials in Kashmir, the army and police have been dismissed and the InspectorInspector General of Police and Chief of General Staff. Contracts for the construction of a bridge over the River Ravi, near Pathankot, so that the connection between India and Jammu and Kashmir have been released. The road between Jammu and Kathua has been improved and built a telegraph line between Jammu and the valley. All this was possible because of support from India.
Gandhi has the cure for his anxiety, but the people of Kashmir have suffered from anxiety since. Gandhi, the manThe peace has brought misery to the people of Kashmir. It 'interesting that after all the pressure, the Maharaja not yet signed the Act of Accession. The British historian Alistair Lamb, in his book distorts the Indian request for the accession of Maharaja signed the instrument.
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